Google+ has rolled out new features for its profile and pages. The new features include a “Local” reviews tab and larger cover photos, one day ahead of Facebook‘s big News Feed announcement.
On Wednesday, 15 May 2013, Google announced in a Google Plus post that users will gradually start to see some new features added throughout the social network. The announcement was made at Google I/O annual conference in San Francisco.
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Though, Google had presence in the field of Social Media in the form of Orkut and YouTube, Orkut was not a worthy competitor for Facebook. And YouTube being more of a video-sharing website has videos that are regularly shared on Facebook.
With people seeing video links shared on Facebook and coming to YouTube after that, obviously Google wanted something bigger to compete with Facebook. So it came up with Google Plus, a new social networking website which was similar to Facebook in many ways.
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